This Epistle has been highly esteemed by several learned men of the church of Rome and others. The Quakers have printed a translation and plead for it, as the reader may see, by consulting Poole's Annotations on Col. vi. 16. Sixtus Senensis mentions two MSS., the one in the Sorbonne Library at Paris, which is a very ancient copy, and the other in the Library of Joannes a Viridario, at Padua, which he transcribed and published, and which is the authority for the following translation. There is a very old translation of this Epistle in the British Museum, among the Harleian MSS., Cod. 1212.

1. Ko e Tohi ʻa Paula ko e ʻAposetoló ki he Kau
Leotisiá
VAHE 1
1 Paula ko ha ʻAposetolo, ʻoku ʻikai ʻo e tangata, pe ʻi he tangata, ka ʻi he fai ʻe Sisu Kalaisi,
ki he kainga ʻoku ʻi Leotisia.
2 Ke ʻiate kimoutolu ʻa e ʻaloʻofá, mo e Melinó, mei he ʻOtua ko e Tamaí mo hotau ʻEiki ko
Sīsū Kalaisí.
3 ʻOku ou fakafetaʻi kia Kalaisi ʻi heʻeku lotu kotoa pē, koeʻuhí ke mou fai atu pea kītaki ʻi he
ngaahi ngāue leleí ʻo kumi ʻa e meʻa kuo talaʻofa mai ʻi he ʻaho ʻo e fakamāú.
4 ʻOua naʻa tuku ʻa e ngaahi lea taʻeʻaonga ʻo ha fakamamahi kiate kimoutolu ʻoku fakakeheʻi
ʻa e moʻoní, koeʻuhí ke nau tohoakiʻi atu ʻa kimoutolu mei he moʻoni ʻo e Ongoongolelei ʻa
ia kuó u malangaʻí.
5 Pea ko ʻeni ʻofa ke tuku mai ʻe he ʻOtuá, ke lava ʻe heʻeku kau uluí ʻo maʻu ha ʻilo haohaoa
ki he moʻoni ʻo e Ongoongoleleí, pea anga fakaʻofoʻofa, mo fai ʻa e ngaahi ngāue lelei ʻoku ō
fakataha mo e fakamoʻuí.
6 Pea ko ʻeni ko hoku ngaahi haʻi, ʻa ia ʻoku ou mamahi ai ʻia Kalaisí, ʻoku fakahā ia, ʻa ia
ʻoku ou fiefia mo nēkeneka aí.
7 He ʻoku ou ʻiloʻi ʻe liliu ʻeni ki hoku fakamoʻuí ʻo taʻengata, ʻa ia ʻe fou ʻi hoʻo lotú, pea mo
e tokonaki ʻo e Laumālie Māʻoniʻoní.
8 Pe ʻoku ou moʻui pe mate; he kiate au ke u moʻuí ʻe hoko ia ko ha moʻui kia Kalaisi, pea ʻe
hoko ʻa e maté ko e fiefia.
9 Pea ʻe foaki mai ʻe hotau ʻEikí kiate kimautolu ʻa ʻene ʻaloʻofá, koeʻuhí ke mou maʻu ʻa e
ʻofa tatau, pea mou fakakaukau tatau.
10 Ko ia, ʻe hoku ʻofaʻanga, ʻo hangē ko hoʻomou fanongo ki he hāʻele mai ʻa e ʻEikí, ke pehē
hoʻomou fakakaukau mo ngāue ʻi he manavahē, pea ʻe hoko ia kiate kimoutolu ʻa e moʻui
taʻengatá;
11 He ko e ʻOtuá ʻoku ngāue ʻiate kimoutolú;
12 Pea fai ʻa e meʻa kotoa pē taʻe ʻi ai ha angahala.
13 Pea ko e meʻa ʻoku lelei tahá, ʻe hoku ʻofaʻanga, ʻoku ou fiefia ʻi he ʻEiki ko Sīsū Kalaisí,
pea fakaʻehiʻehi mei he ngaahi luo ʻuli kotoa pē.
14 Tuku ke fakahā ki he ʻOtuá hoʻomou kole kotoa pē, pea tuʻu maʻu ʻi he tokāteline ʻa Kalaisí.
15 Pea ʻilonga ha meʻa ʻoku totonu mo moʻoni, pea mo e ongoongo leleí, mo e angamaʻá, mo
e angatonú, mo e fakaʻofoʻofá, ʻoku fai ʻe he ngaahi meʻá ni.
16 Ko e ngaahi meʻa ko ia kuo mou fanongo mo maʻú, fakakaukau ki he ngaahi meʻá ni, pea
ʻe ʻiate kimoutolu ʻa e melinó.
17 ʻOku feʻofoʻofani ʻa e kāingalotu kotoa pē kiate kimoutolu.
18 Ke ʻi ho laumālié ʻa e ʻaloʻofa ʻa hotau ʻEiki ko Sīsū Kalaisí. ʻEmeni.
19 ʻ Ai ke lau ʻ a e Tohi ko ení ki he kau Kolosé, pea ke lau ʻ a e Tohi ʻ a e Kau Kolosé ʻ i
homou lotolotongá.